UFO ROUNDUP

Volume 4
Number 27
October 28, 1999

Editor: Joseph Trainor

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BRITISH VET CLAIMS UFO CRASHED IN WALES

A new book by researcher Nick Redfern
makes the claim that a UFO crashed in a
remote valley in the Clwyd district of Wales
back in January 1974.

The bodies of two dead aliens were
reportedly recovered from the wreck.

"Farmer Huw Lloyd, 39, was a boy of 14
watching TV at home in nearby Llandrillo
on the night of the crash in January 1974.
He said he saw a large object followed by
a train (luminous contrail--J.T.) and a
blinking blue light. Huw recalled, 'I was
amazed at how quickly the police responded
and and how many people came here."

Among the arrivals, according to Redfern,
were British Army units, one of which took
custody of the two alien bodies.

"The mysterious craft came down in the
Berwyn Mountains, Clwyd...In a chilling echo
of the infamous Roswell incident in New Mexico
(in July 1947 (or Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in
1965--J.T.), scores of troops were dispatched on
a secret mission to retrieve the wreckage."

"One soldier, quoted in the book under the
pseudonym 'James Prescott,' was ordered to
Llanderfel with four others and loaded two
oblong boxes into their armoured truck."

"The truck ferried the boxes back to the
Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment
at Porton Down, near Salisbury, Wiltshire under
strict orders not to stop for anything."

"Retired Mr. Prescott, who is too afraid of
reprisals to be named" said that once they
arrived, "'the boxes were opened by staff at the
facility in our presence. We were startled to see
two creatures which had been placed inside
decontamination suits.'"

"'It was obvious that the creatures were not
of this earth, and, when examined, were found
to have died.'"

"'The bodies were about five to six feet tall,
humanoid in shape, but so that they looked
almost skeletal with a covering skin.'"

"'Although I did not see a craft at the scene
of the recovery, I was informed that a large craft
had crashed and was retrieved by other (British)
military units.'"

"The incident has remained classified, and
the (UK) Ministry of Defence has refused to
comment." (See the Daily Mirror of London for
October 22, 1999, "How Alien's My Valley?"

(Editor's Comment: Shouldn't that be How Green
Was My Alien? Interestingly, Porton Down is not
far from the recently-identified secret base at
Corsham, Wilts. It looks like Llandrillo, Wales
has joined Roswell, Kecksburg, Boyle, Ireland
and Varginha, Brazil on the roster of UFO crash
sites.)

GLOWING FIREBALLS SEEN BY MANY IN SOUTH AFRICA

"That spectacular UFO which streaked through
the night sky yesterday (Saturday, October 23,
1999--J.T.) was a meteorite shower."

"Dreikus Weideman, a marketer for a steel
company, thought he was seeing things while
driving home from Johannesburg to
Suikerbusrand along the (Highway) R59 at
1:55 a.m. yesterday."

"'At first I thought it was an aircraft with
incredibly strong landing lights,' he said, 'I pulled
the car over to the side of the road, switched off
the engine and climbed out to watch it. There
was a very white light streaming backwards and
within it were a string of five smaller lights. I
thought maybe it was a military aircraft and
smaller craft flying in formation.'"

"Weideman said the object was travelling
diagonally, heading northeast and 'moving
incredibly fast in a straight line.'"

"He said a call to Johannesburg International
Airport revealed that two aircraft had also
spotted the light."

"'One plane, which ws headed towards
Bloemfontein, was travelling at 31,000 feet
(10,300 meters) and it seemd that the light
was even higher up. They also had a
call from Heidelberg.'"

"But an air traffic controller at Johannesburg
International Airport poured water on this tale
and also commented yesterday, 'It was just a
meteorite shower.'"

"In Schweizer-Reineke, in North West (about
464 kilometers or 290 miles southwest of
Johannesburg--J.T.), Pastor Andre Pieterse and
his wife were loading bread into a van when they
saw an 'object' coming in low."

"'At first we thought it was a landing aircraft,
but, as it came closer, we saw it was a fireball,
with a piece as big as a house in front and
several smaller pieces the size of cars following
it in its orange tail,' he said, 'It was travelling
very fast and in the direction of Warmbaths.
It was very beautiful.'" (See the Sunday Times
of Johannesburg for October 24, 1999, "Flying-
saucer scare just meteorites in a teacup."
Many thanks to Stig Agermose for forwarding
this newspaper article.)

BRIGHT UFO HOVERS OVER HEEMSKERK, NETHERLANDS

On Tuesday, October 19, 1999, at 3:30 p.m.,
Win M. was at his home in Heemskerk in the
Netherlands, a city located 42 kilometers
(25 miles) northwest of Amsterdam, the
national capital, when he spotted a UFO.

"I looked out my window, and I could see a
bright object overhead," Win reported. "It was
flying from southeast to northwest in a straight
line. Estimated speed was about the same as
a jet airliner. Estimated altitude was 10 kilometers
(6 miles or 31,680 feet--J.T.) No vapor trail could
be seen. I watched the UFO with 10x50
binoculars. It took at least three seconds to
disappear out of sight" over the North Sea.
(Email Interview)

MORE UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTED IN AUSTRALIA

More UFO sightings were reported in
Australia during October.

On Thursday, October 1, 1999, at 2 a.m.,
two men saw a UFO from the downtown area
of Adelaide, S.A. (South Australia), the state
capital.

R.R. reported, "My friend Jeff and I were
walking down Gray Street in the city after leaving
a night club, when I noticed a startling thing
about 45 degrees to the horizon travelling down
to about 30 degrees above the horizon, and it
just stopped. Then it travelled in a triangular
pattern very fast and stopped again. A white
light shot up to the first object, that I could see
was disc-shaped, and then it also did a series
of loops very fast and shot off at incredible
speed."

"Well, I know that technology is fairly good
these days,' he added, 'but I doubt that anyone
would survive the G forces involved in the
manoeuvres the object made."

The case is being investigated by Peter
Johnson of the Australian UFO Research
Network (AUFORN).

On Saturday, October 9, 1999, a woman
named Margaret "was leaving the drive-through
of a fast food outlet on Dandenong Road" in
Oakleigh, Vic. (Victoria), Australia when she
"noticed a large light towards the north. At
first, she thought it was the landing light of an
aircraft."

Margaret then became startled by "the
high speed with which it passed from north
to south" over Oakleigh. She said she believed
the UFO "to have been aqua in colour" but is not
certain. It might have been bright white but
appeared aqua because of her tinted windshield.

The case is being investigated by Tony Cook
of the Victoria UFO Research Society (VUFORS).
(Many thanks to Diane Harrison of AUFORN
for these reports.)

GIRL SEES THREE UFOs IN ASHLAND, WISCONSIN

On Monday, October 25, 1999, at 6 p.m.,
the eyewitness, Jessica, was walking along
Sunset Beach on the shore of Chequamegon
Bay on Lake Superior, when she noticed
something odd in the sky.

Sunset Beach is in Ashland, Wisconsin
(population 8,695), located on U.S. Route 2
approximately 377 miles (607 kilometers)
northwest of Milwaukee.

"I was walking my dog, and I saw three
white orbs hovering over the Lake (Superior)
for about three minutes," she reported.

The UFOs then zipped away to the
east, "over the hills across the bay," towards
Odanah, Wis. (population 400) (Many thanks
to Morgan Clements, director of World Wide
UFO Reporting Center, for this report.)

(Editor's Note: Odanah is the site of the
Bad River Indian Reservation, owned by
the Anishinabe people.)

TRIANGULAR UFOs SEEN IN MASSACHUSETTS

On Friday, October 22, 1999, at 7:30 p.m.,
a 30-year-old man was hiking in the woods
of Brookfield (population 1,037), a small town
in central Massachusetts, and stopped to
"take a breather" on a hilltop.

"I have seen three triangular aircraft,"
he reported, "They appeared to be sneaking
through a smalll valley at night, near where
I live. They are probably 75 feet long, and,
as a rule, totally silent with no lighting on
the outside. I have seen them pretty up
close and can tell that there's lighting inside
them."

"I was scared, reaching to get a cigarette.
All of a sudden, three large roaring planes
went screaming by, as if they were chasing
them. This is the second time I have seen
these craft."

Brookfield is on Routes 9 and 48,
approximately 25 miles (40 kilometers) west
of Worcester, second largest city in
Massachusetts. (Many thanks to Morgan
Clements, director of World Wide UFO
Reporting Center for this report.)

(Editor's Note: Brookfield was the site of
a UFO sighting during the "airship era."
The incident took place on October 24, 1908.
You can read about it in the Berkshire Daily
Eagle for October 25, 1908, page 2.)

ROUNDUP MYSTERY VAN SEEN IN LOUISIANA

Three months after its initial appearance,
the mysterious white surveillance van bearing
UFO Roundup's website address surfaced
again, this time in southwestern Louisiana.

During the evening of Thursday,
October 14, 1999, Gary and Linda K. and
a few of Gary's friends stopped at the
isle of Capri Casino just off Interstate
Highway I-10 in Lake Charles, Louisiana
(population 70,580), about 126 miles
(211 kilometers) west of Baton Rouge, the
state capital.

Returning that evening, Gary and Linda
sent an email to this newsletter, saying,
"Hi, we saw your van." Editor Joseph Trainor
informed the couple that UFO Roundup is not
the owner of the mysterious white van and
asked them for an interview, to which they
graciously consented.

"We saw the van in Lake Charles, La.,
in the (parking) lot of the Isle of Capri Casino,"
Linda reported. "In the lot closest to the door.
It was evening. The rear of the van had UFO
FIELD INTERCEPT TEAM and your website
(URL) on the back door."

"It was government-owned. It had (the
license plate read) US000000 and a single
number at the end. It had two satellite dishes
on the roof, a computer on the dash
(dashboard--J.T.) and tinted windows."

"Me and my husband Gary saw it and also
an old friend from Ennis and two of his fellow
workers. My husband got a really good look
at the UFO van. He spent the time to look it
over well. We saw no humans on board."

Apparently, the mysterious white van has
undergone some changes since its last
appearance in Warsaw, Indiana. The word
FIELD was added to the back-door logo. And
the van ditched its previous Georgia license
plates for a pair of phony U.S. Government
plates.

Real government license plates have a
GS prefix. Examples: GS12 5498 or
GS10 7642. They don't start with the
prefix U.S.

The owners and operators of the
mysterious white van remain unknown.
As does the purpose of its strange odyssey
across the USA. (Email Interview)

COSMIC CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN KENOSHA

The Cosmic Awareness Conference
will be held on Saturday and Sunday,
November 13 and 14, 1999 at the Parkway
Chateau/Brat Stop at the intersection of
Interstate Highway I-94 and Route 50 in
Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Kenosha (population 80,352) is about
55 miles (88 kilometers) north of Chicago.

Saturday's conference hours will be
8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday's conference
hours will be 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission
is $20 for each day.

Y2K: MARINES TRAIN IN CENTRAL ARIZONA

On Monday, October 18, 1999, at 7:30
p.m., 49 camoflauged Marines of the 15th
Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) of Camp
Pendleton, California, slid down nylon
ropes from two helicopters and landed
on the runway at Williams Gateway airport
in Mesa, Arizona (population 288,091),
a large city on Highway 87 about 10 miles
(16 kilometers) southeast of Phoenix.

"One by one, the Marines jumped out
of the craft and landed on a target 25 feet
below on a Williams Gateway airport runway."

"It was a scene that will be repeated
several times this week in different Valley
locations as part of the training to prepare
them for the rigors of working in urban areas,
rathern than open stretches of beach or
dense strands of deserted forests often
associated with Marine operations."

"'We've come to recognize that more and
more of our missions will be in urban areas,'
said Col. Richard C. Zilmer, commanding officer
of the 15th MEU, based at Camp Pendleton,
Calif."

"Just after 7:30 p.m., 49 Marines practiced
'insert techniques' in which two helicopters
hovered over a target while Marines descended
on ropes, a technique called 'fast roping.'"
(See the Arizona Republic for October 19, 1999,
"Valley is urban training ground for Marines.")

In all, about 300 Marines of the 15th MEU
participated in MOUT (Military Operations in
Urban Terrain--J.T.) exercises in the Phoenix
suburbs, most notably in Goodyear, Ariz.
(population 6,258), 12 miles (18 kilometers)
southwest of Phoenix, and in Litchfield Park,
Ariz. (population 3,303) 14 miles (19 kilometers)
west of Phoenix.

In Litchfield Park, a local reporter interviewed
members of the City Council, who reportedly
told her that the FBI was "overseeing" the
training operation. (See the West Valley View
for October 19, 1999.)

However, Capt. Arnoux Abraham, USMC,
a spokesman for the 15th MEU, "vehemently
denied a locally-published report stating that the
FBI was 'overseeing' the exercises."

"'That is, emphatically, incorrect,' he said."

Capt. Abraham "said that while the FBI was
indeed on the scene, these officials were merely
acting as a liaison between 'the Marine Corps and
local law enforcement officials.'"

"The FBI's role, said (Capt.) Abraham, is to
coordinate with local police to cordon off training
areas and make them safe, and to ensure
civilians did not stray into live-fire zones. The
Justice Department normally sends an FBI
agent to a planned training site 'a couple of weeks'
before the training actually begins 'to start the
coordination process.'"

"Regarding the concern local residents have
about seeing armed Marines in town, (Capt.)
Abraham said there is no reason to worry."

"'The training that we practice is strictly in
preparation for our operations abroad,' he said,
'Our purpose...is not to use it on our own citizens.
We're all Americans, too, and we took an oath to
protect the people we serve.'"

"'This is an effort to ensure the U.S. Marine
Corps is properly trained to execute its
mission abroad,' he added." (See WorldNet Daily
for October 20, 1999, "The Marines land in
Arizona: Units engaged in urban assault training
exercises," by Jon E. Dougherty.)

(Editor's Comment: Here we have another instance
of intensive military training to deal with some
threat that the U.S. government in unwilling to
discuss publicly. But...don't worry about it.
Go watch Dharma and Greg on TV. Jenna
Elfman is cute and funny. And remember, only
"kooks" believe in UFOs or Operation Abacus.)

from the UFO Files...

1994: REHOBOTH'S HAUNTED CEMETERY

Fans of The Blair Witch Project looking for a
place to visit Halloween night should visit the
Rehoboth Village Cemetery in Rehoboth,
Massachusetts (population 7,600), a small
town on Route 44 about 40 miles (64 kilometers)
southwest of Boston.

The cemetery dates back to the Seventeenth
Century and was a boyhood haunt (no pun
intended--J.T.) of Howard Phillips Lovecraft
(1890-1937), who lived most of his life in nearby
Providence, Rhode Island.

"Old Ephraim" is the leading attraction at
the Rehoboth Village Cemetery. Since 1994,
there have been repeated manifestations of
this particular entity.

Ephraim was sighted on January 17,
1994 by Daniel and Barbara Miles who "were
standing in the center of the cemetery, visiting
a relative's grave, when suddenly in a spot
at the southwest rear of the graveyard,
where there had been no one present just a
moment earlier, en elderly man" dressed in
Eitheenth Century clothes "who had a
prominent hooked nose and a sneering
facial expression, was curiously kneeling on
the ground next to a gravestone. He seemed
to be praying and alternately sobbing and
laughing."

"After less than a minute, the bizarre
figure suddenly dematerialized, and Barbara
and Daniel hurried out of the cemetery in a
state of alarm."

What they saw, Daniel reported, "will
upset both of us for the rest of our lives."

On August 21, 1995, two sisters, Lisa
and Karen Mackey of Rehoboth, Mass.
"visited the cemetery to pay respects to their
dead mother."

"Suddenly, as they prepared to depart,
the two women were startled by a strange
sound deriving from the southwest corner
of the graveyard"--the loudest wolf whistle
they had ever heard.

"When Lisa and Karen looked in that
direction, they were startled to see a
strange-looking elderly man" wearing the
same Eighteenth Century garb the Miles
couple had seen. Old Ephraim was
"staring at them intently and making an
obscene gesture with his hands."

Lisa reported that the apparition
"was clearly not natural. Not only did he
move in a strange sort of floating slow
motion, but the old man's eyes seemed
entirely black and hollow...without the
spark of life, somehow soul-less."

The Mackey sisters beat a hasty
retreat and have not been back to the
cemetery since.

The most recent Ephraim sighting was
on April 7, 1996 when he was seen by
teacher Sarah Dickerman, 36, of nearby
Taunton, Mass.

"What I encountered that day has
affected every aspect of my life," Sarah
reported.

"While taking a walk through the
cemetery for relaxation, she reportedly
observed an elderly man at that
southwestern rear part of the graveyard,
kneeling on the ground and sobbing."

"When she came to within a few
yards of the strange character, he
suddenly sprang to his feet (in retrospect,
says Sarah, with a type of 'liquid' movement
that wasn;t natural), and then he burst out in
a strange laughter.. A second later, he
called Sarah a '(expletive)' to her face."

"Profoundly startled, Sarah quickly turned
away and began to walk briskly in the direction
of her parked car, and behind her she could
hear him alternately laughing and yelling,
'Catherine, Catherine, you (expletive)!'"

"At that point, in a state of pronounced
panic, Sarah broke in a terrified run toward
her car, which was parked on the road
(Pond Street--J.T.) to the side of the cemetery.
Upon reaching her vehicle, she was astonished
to observe, in the distance, that the old man
had re-materialized back in his original spot
in the southwestern part of the cemetery."

"As she nervously began to drive away,
the astonished woman noticed from her car
window that the bizarre old man was now
leaning over and beating with his fist a young
woman lying prostrate before him on the
ground. A moment later, both figures
entirely vanished."

Charles Turek Robinson, the author who
interviewed the witnesses, believes that the
haunting involves "some terrible human drama
conflict that is re-enacting itself over and over
again in the cemetery."

However, the Village Cemetery, located
about 100 meters (330 feet) south of Route 44
on Pond Street, isn't the only haunted spot in
the town of Rehoboth.

Ghosts have also been reported on
Lake Street, Perryville Dam Road, Danforth
Street and the Palmer River Riding Club.

Indeed, there are more ghosts in Rehoboth
than there are witches in Salem. Or UFOs
in Fitchburg! (See the book True New England
Mysteries, Ghosts, Crimes and Oddities by
Charles Turek Robinson, Covered Bridge Press,
North Attleboro, Mass. 1997, pages 38 to 43.)

We'll be back next week with more UFO
news from around the planet, brought to you
by "the paper that goes home--UFO Roundup."
It'll be interesting to see what kind of UFO and
paranormal activity takes place on Halloween
1999. Have a safe Trick or Treat.

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